GRE Word List
PROPONENT
one who argues in favor of something : advocate
The meaning of the word proponent is one who argues in favor of something : advocate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| dynamo | generator |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| inadvertently | unintentional |